I'm about to load my first 223 cartridges (waiting for a shell plate), and I'm evaluating my components which consist of FC and LC(+) brass. I'll be loading the FC brass first, which is once-fired, and I'm assuming it's military brass with a crimped pocket. Since I've never seen a crimped primer, I decided to see what happens when you insert a primer into a crimped pocket. I put a few spent primers in my press and started priming the brass with the spent primers. Unexpectedly, they all inserted just fine!? I then did the same thing with the LC(+) brass, and got the same result.
So are crimped primer pockets loadable for the most part? just squish a primer now and then?
I was about to decrimp all my brass with my deburr tool, but I don't know how much brass to take off to remove the crimp. I figured I'd grind off a little, and see if they accepted a primer, then grind off a little more, until I found the "just right mount" to file off. But they primed w/o any crimp removal.
am I missing something?
thanks,
-edfardos
So are crimped primer pockets loadable for the most part? just squish a primer now and then?
I was about to decrimp all my brass with my deburr tool, but I don't know how much brass to take off to remove the crimp. I figured I'd grind off a little, and see if they accepted a primer, then grind off a little more, until I found the "just right mount" to file off. But they primed w/o any crimp removal.
am I missing something?
thanks,
-edfardos